QCADesigner: a rapid design and Simulation tool for quantum-dot cellular automata

Author

Walus, Konrad ; Dysart, Timothy J. ; Jullien, Graham A. ; Budiman, R. Arief

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Univ. of Calgary, Alta., Canada

Volume

3

Issue

1

fYear

2004

fDate

3/1/2004 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

26

Lastpage

31

Abstract

This paper describes a project to create a novel design and simulation tool for quantum-dot cellular automata (QCA), namely QCADesigner. QCA logic and circuit designers require a rapid and accurate simulation and design layout tool to determine the functionality of QCA circuits. QCADesigner gives the designer the ability to quickly layout a QCA design by providing an extensive set of CAD tools. As well, several simulation engines facilitate rapid and accurate simulation. This tool has already been used to design full-adders, barrel shifters, random-access memories, etc. These verified layouts provide motivation to continue efforts toward a final implementation of QCA circuits.

Keywords

cellular automata; quantum dots; quantum gates; random-access storage; QCAD designer; barrel shifters; full-adders; quantum-dot cellular automata circuit; random-access memories; Circuit simulation; Laboratories; Logic circuits; Logic design; Open source software; Quantum cellular automata; Quantum computing; Quantum dots; Read-write memory; Search engines;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Nanotechnology, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1536-125X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TNANO.2003.820815

Filename

1278264